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Description Optical couplers are used to take the light coming from the source of a FTIR and route it through the sampling accessory and into the FTIR detector. This is an essential process in the effective use of the FTIR spectrometer. Therefore, optical couplers play an essential role in the proper use and maintenance of a FTIR system. Recognizing the importance of optical couplers ...

Humic acids isolated from different stages of olive mill waste composting were investigated by Elemental analysis, Fluorescence spectroscopy and by Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC). The Elemental composition of these humic acids indicates an increase in aromatic structures during the composting. Indeed, the fluorescence results showed an increase in condensed aromatic ring systems. ...

Nonpoint source phosphorus (P) pollution into the Chesapeake Bay watershed from poultry operations contributes to the algal blooms, hypoxia, anoxia, and fish kill events that occur there most years. A major source of soluble, bioavailable P species is poultry litter, which is used as a crop fertilizer on fields adjacent to the tributaries of the Bay. A potentially significant source of ...

During start-up and shut-down, any time a sulfur recovery unit (SRU) transitions from ambient temperature through fuel gas warm up to the introduction of acid gas, measurement of 02 stoichiometry is critical. Historically, operators have manually taken samples using a portable electrochemical type Os analyzer. While giving more or less satisfactory results, the requirement for more stringent ...

The characteristics of a white LED light differs greatly, when compared to a yellow CFL. Without any special tools, one can see that the LED emits a clear white color, while the CFL generates yellow light. Going one step further, using a spectrometer, one will be able to “dissect” the light sources and see that they are composed of other colors in the visible light spectrum, such as ...

Their persistence and wide consumption identify pharmaceuticals as “emerging pollutants”. The complexation of pharmaceuticals containing adamantine ring structures and their model substances with humic acids (HA) of different origins was compared using fluorescence spectroscopy as a function of pH, humic acid concentration, ionic strength, and molecular mass of HA. Binding constants between the ...

The development of microsystems as tools for nanotechnology is strongly observed in the case of Biological MicroElectroMechanical Systems (BioMEMS). A part of them aim at the characterisation of biomolecules in solutions or in biological entities such as living cells. THz spectroscopy could provide interesting new complementary information at the systemic biology due to its faculty to probe the ...

Liquid cooled engines and rotating equipment use glycol based coolants because of their excellent heat transfer abilities. However, glycol based coolants are not desirable at all in lubrication oil itself – Coolant ingression to the lubricant is a particularly nasty contaminant for the variety of damage it can cause. Glycol coolants break down in the high temperature engine environment, ...

Introduction Over the past several years, an alarming trend has become evident, highlighting serious issues related to contaminated alcohol within the European Union, particularly Eastern Europe (1). This issue came to a breaking point in September of 2012 when the Czech Republic officially banned the sale of hard liquor after 20 people died from the consumption of methanol-laced ...

The autonomous ordering and assembly of atoms and molecules on atomically well–defined surfaces allow creating a wide range of surface nanostructures, opening an alternative bottom–up route to the traditional top–down fabrication methods of the microelectronics industry now approaching their fundamental limits. This review summarises some recent efforts of our team to grow molecular arrays on ...

There has never been such a wide range of analysers and systems available for continuous emissions monitoring as there is today. In the UK there are over 12 manufacturers and distributors offering CEMS (continuous emissions monitoring systems) using a variety of technologies including UV and IR absorption, FTIR, DOAS, chemiluminescence and photoacoustic spectroscopy (PAS). The majority of CEMS ...

Dissolved organic matter (DOM) has significant influence on the transport and fate of contaminants in multiple phases and it has potential hazard by acting as a precursor of disinfection by-products in water supply. The changes in DOM characteristics, especially by oxidative polymerization might result in different behaviour in the interaction with many contaminants. The aim of this work was to ...

Local authorities seeking more accurate NO2 readings should consider using analysers which incorporate ‘Blue Light Converters’ says air quality monitoring specialists Enviro Technology. This comment comes following a presentation held at the Royal Society of Chemistry / AAMG Conference in December 2010 by EMPA (Switzerland) – an independent research and services ...

Silicon optoelectronics is an emerging technological platform, which holds promise for providing better performance, mostly in terms of lower dissipation losses, than the traditional electronics. However, a monolithic integrated light source is still missing since bulk silicon is a very poor light emitter due to its indirect bandgap. The situation dramatically changes when the size of the crystal ...

LGR's Hydrogen Chloride Analyzer (HCl, H2O) provides sensitive measurements of HCl in ambient air or in industrial process flows (e.g., coal and cement exhaust streams) with extremely high precision and sensitivity. No longer do you have to spend a lot of money or wait a long time to measure HCl with extremely high sensitivity – LGR's HCl Analyzer provides measurements every second with ...

Introduction Water is an important substance without which mankind cannot survive. However, it also causes problems such as residual impurity in scientific experiments and in manufacturing processes where a high-vacuum condition or a high-purity gas is required. This is because water is present in the atmosphere in large quantities and therefore can intrude readily everywhere, and can adsorb ...

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